Nina Nastasia unveils new songs "Whatever You Need To Believe" and "Too Soon"

"Whatever You Need To Believe" and "Too Soon" mark Nastasia's first new outings since her July album Riderless Horse, and were both recorded during the album sessions.

Nastasia says of "Whatever You Need To Believe", "It can be annoying to hear people talk about what exactly happens to a person when they die and then suggest things to do for that dead person in order for them to smoothly travel to the next destination in the afterlife, so they’re not trapped in a holding pattern. First and foremost, why do I have to take care of their travel plans. And second…well…what exactly have you chosen to have happen?"

"Aging is cruel," Nastasia adds of "Too Soon". "Nature is cruel. Beautiful but mean. Unlike this song, I won’t find some tall nice grass to lay myself down in to die. I will go out screaming and kicking. And if science can find some solution for the pains of aging and the bummer of dying, I’ll sign up for the clinical trials, but that’s a different song."

Riderless Horse marked Nastasia's first album in over a decade, following 2010's Outlaster. The album will be released on vinyl for the first time tomorrow (4 November).